Ruah Edelstein
Artist
LINKS TO SERIES OF WORK FROM DIFFERENT YEARS
Medium: Paint-on-glass monoprintsRelease date: Dec 17, 2021
Although pain and death were not alien, despair and rebellion were. From now on, the soul could be joyful or sad, but it did not suffer from discord.
Medium: 3D sculptingRelease date: June 17, 2021
Fabricating light out of darkness since all other methods became unavailable. Unstoppable, the medium of darkness is the brightest, healing to the heart.
Medium: Tempera, ink, gel, graphiteRelease date: April 24, 2019
I swim in the luxury of calling things by their names. Norms are ever-changing but they are all outside of me, while inside all of my efforts are fruitful.
Medium: Oil pastelsRelease date: April 22, 2019
Necessities outside of primary ones are acquired, like an acquired taste. Outside of sleeping and eating nothing is necessary, unless it is acquired.
Medium: Ink, film, transfer letteringRelease date: Feb 28, 2019
We ask more of ourselves than others ask of us. In everything I wish to rely on the word. The rest is a fairytale and matrices of newspapers that form the brains of those who sleep.
Medium: Cutout, carbon paper, black cardRelease date: Jan 30, 2019
I was walking on the edge of the roof. Then I made this card for myself and it became official: all things are now possible for me, everything is allowed.
Medium: Gouache, ink on paperRelease date: Oct 20, 2019
Marginal thinking: I am what I want. And I want to write, and that's how I am a writer. And while I'm a writer, I paint what I would be writing about, to block and unblock.
Medium: Ink on paperRelease date: Oct 30, 2018
And again, the whole tells the soul to overcome itself, to be reborn for yet another unknown service. A new step to a new motherland – I give it all for the renewal.
Medium: Manuscript, 56 pagesRelease date: Nov 24, 2018
The Stalin-era telephone is hanging on the wall and is silent. This is the best that a phone can do. Telephones are for silence.
Medium: Paper mache, gouache, inkRelease date: May 21, 2018
Memory encodes events that have a strong impact. This series is comprised of long-term memory algorithms of separate events encoded into a visual sensory experience.
Medium: Ink, gel, transfer letteringRelease date: April 12, 2018
Don't let yourself be hypnotized. Protect your thoughts. Know that to be in a majority is dangerous. If you find yourself in one, try to figure out what is wrong with you.
Medium: Pigment, ink, transfer letteringRelease date: Feb 4, 2018
A type of OCD, elements that I collect with an unknown use or minimal program. Today I am this kind of poet and these are my rhymes.
Medium: Manuscript, 36 pages Release date: Aug 30, 2018
Slowly waking up. I'm asking them, where is the pill for despair? And then I remembered, I AM, precisely, that pill, the pill for despair. This is my only purpose.
Medium: Graphite, charcoal, pigmentRelease date: Nov 30, 2018
From the portfolio of ideas one pays attention to, without assigning the smallest unit of meaning, a molecule from the infinite possibilities becomes my biology.
Medium: Pigment on wood cubesRelease date: Oct 24, 2016
There is a need to negotiate the meaning of words prior to holding a conversation. Only once the meaning of words is agreed upon, is a conversation possible.
Medium: Site-specific frescosRelease date: Aug 8, 2012
Logic can be an obstacle to new knowledge. Discoveries visit during long walks in a field or, as with this work, in a shower. The infinity of the universe is in mundane objects.
Medium: Tempera, animation framesRelease date: May 12, 2012
I'll survive and call you back. No need to worry. Red flag: hello! I-am-worried straight away. Helpless I wait. I am your child. You have long returned. Yet, messed up, I am waiting.
Collection: oil on canvas, drawingsRelease date: 2001–2021
Now, for every feat of wisdom there will come an hour that cancels its meaning. Every vision inevitably fades in due time and gives way to new ones.